I love your use of the word "salty," Steph. Too rarely used, imo. I'm neutral on sportsball.

I was doing the deposit at work today and every time I came across a ten-dollar bill, I said, "Your name is Alexander Hamilton." Just, you know, because I could.

I like some sports. I like watching baseball. (I also like watching figure skating and gymnastics, and diving, and some other sports, but those don't seem to count as "sports" usually.) When my old upstairs neighbors were watching some sports thing and being really loud about it, I didn't really care which sports thing it was, any more than I cared which video game they were playing when they were being really loud about that.

Speaking of which, those guys moved out a little while ago, and the landlord has been showing the apartment to new people. One of them, the landlord stopped with him on the front porch and told him to look at the view, and he responded, "Oh, we know some very attractive women who live in that house over there, so I know that we will appreciate this view a lot." I really hope they don't move in.

Timelies all!

Got to daycare and was told the little guy has a fever. I know he's been fighting something, with a runny nose and coughing. Fever's a new addtition, and means one of us will have to stay home from work tomorrow, as daycare's policy is for kids to stay home until 24 hours after their temp is back to normal. I'll talk to Gary about this when he gets home, including if the little guy should go to the pediatrician.(He's sounding a bit congested.)

It is dismissive and said by a lot of people in an elistist snobby way to point out very clearly that they don't watch or care about sports.

It just doesn't bother me because we all tend to be like that about something.

Yeah, I'm not in favor of being dismissive of something somebody loves even when it's not my beautiful cake. I try not to do that anymore unless your thing is eating babies or whatever.

Also:

"Oh, we know some very attractive women who live in that house over there, so I know that we will appreciate this view a lot."

Gross.

Huh. It is just me

No, it can bug the shit out of me, too. Some people definitely use it in that same irritating way "Kill your television" people would. With a sneer, like, "I'm far too weird to like anything a Normal would like."

102 degrees, 9% humidity in my town. I think I hear my skin crinkling.

My penchant for hanging on to old swimsuits "just in case" finally paid off. One of my favorite instructor/guards had her suit stolen while she was on break and she was pissed about that and how she was gonna have to shell out another $80 because she didn't have time to wait for a sale and how on earth she was going to get to a store between 8 pm tonight and 8 am tomorrow. She looks about my size and a bell went off in my head. Asked, and sure enough, we both wear a 32. Went home and grabbed a couple that were in better shape for her. She said 'if you weren't already my favorite, you would be now.' Hah.

I've been mocked my whole life for not knowing about sports by sports fans who didn't know the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek just like I don't know the names of all the teams of all the balls. As many times as I've heard the equivalent of "blah blah blah *nerd*" I'm afraid I can't muster up any shame about "blah blah blah *sportsball*". I'm sure I'm not affecting them with my lack of concern.

Zen is me regarding the above. And appreciation of sports is one of the markers of masculinity that have been used derisively against *several* communities I've been a part of most of my life that didn't share it: sci-fi & gaming geeks, artists, and gays. So when people get mocked for showing support for their pro sports team of choice in schools and social situations or have to make do with a sparse trickle of funding while the Arts and sci-fi/comic conventions have nine-digit facilities built for them with public money, maybe I'll be more sensitive about correct sports terminology.